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TUESDAY, APRIL 10, 2018 THE TDN DERBY TOP 20 BREEDERS= CUP EXPANDS INTERNATIONAL REACH WITH FOUR ASCOT QUALIFIERS The Breeders= Cup will continue to expand its Breeders= Cup Challenge series through the addition of four qualifying events at Ascot Racecourse during the Royal Ascot meeting, held June 19-23. The winners of the G1 Prince of Wales=s S., G1 Queen Anne S., G2 Norfolk S. and G1 Diamond Jubilee S. will all be awarded automatic AWin and You=re In@ berths into the 2018 Breeders= Cup at Churchill Downs Nov. 2 and Nov. 3. The June 19 Queen Anne, for older horses at a mile, is a qualifier for the GI Breeders= Cup Mile; the June 20 Prince of Wales=s S., for older horses at 10 furlongs, is a qualifier for the GI Longines Breeders= Cup Turf; the June 21 Norfolk, for 2-year- olds at five furlongs, will serve as a qualifier for the newly created Breeders= Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint; and the June 23 Diamond Jubilee, a six-furlong dash for older horses, will be a qualifier for the GI Breeders= Cup Turf Sprint. Cont. p3 Magnum Moon I Coady IN TDN EUROPE TODAY by T.D. Thornton SNITZEL, ARROWFIELD LEAD EASTER OPENER Now that the big Apower weekend@ The Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale opened at Riverside of coast-to-coast nine-furlong preps is Stables in Sydney on Monday, with Arrowfield Stud and its behind us, the GI Kentucky Derby rankings have solidified reigning champion sire Snitzel (Aus) dominating the top of the enough to graduate from the top 12 in the division to the top market. Click or tap here to go straight to TDN Europe. 20. To illustrate how much has changed in the past three months, the two highest-rated prospects currently occupying the No. 1 and No. 2 rankings hadn=t even made their racing debuts when this feature was first published for the season, and the colt now clocking in at No. 4 was considered an overseas-based turf specialist. Please note that the rankings below are independent from the ARoad to the Derby@ points leaderboard that Churchill Downs will use to determine starting berths; that list can be accessed here. 1) MAGNUM MOON (c, Malibu MoonBDazzling Song, by Unbridled=s Song) >TDN Rising Star= O-Robert E. & Lawana L. Low. B-Ramona S. Bass, LLC (KY). T-Todd Pletcher. Sales history: $380,000 yrl KEESEP >16. Lifetime Record: GSW, 3-3-0-0, $577,800. Apr. 3 TDN Top 12 Rank: 2. Last Start: 1st, GII Rebel S., OP, Mar. 17. Next Start: GI Arkansas Derby, OP, Apr. 14 Equineline PPs. Caulfield on Magnum Moon. KY Derby Points: 50 (Click to p7) Colt o/o Bialy, bred by WinStar Farm, LLC Filly o/o Lookout Sister, bred by Don Alberto Corporation FIRST FOALS are arriving Filly o/o Run Rosie, bred by Mary A. 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GI Arkansas Derby contender Combatant (Scat Daddy), wraps up a Justina Severni four-furlong work in :50.20 at Oaklawn Park on Monday morning. See where the Steve Director of Customer Service Asmussen trainee ranks on T.D. Thornton’s TDN Derby Top 20 on page 7. | Coady Vicki Forbes [email protected] Marketing Manager Alayna Cullen @AlaynaCullen SAN LUIS REY TRAINING CENTER REOPENS 4 Four months after the devastating Lilac Fire claimed the lives of Director of Information Technology 46 horses, the San Luis Rey Training Center has reopened. Ray Villa [email protected] Bookkeeper VELAZQUEZ FINED FOR WOOD RIDE 6 Terry May Jockey John Velazquez has been fined for his winning ride aboard [email protected] Vino Rosso (Curlin) in Saturday’s GII Wood Memorial S. WORLDWIDE INFORMATION International Editor Kelsey Riley @kelseynrileyTDN SUPER DERBY HIGHLIGHTS LA DOWNS SCHEDULE 15 [email protected] After a one-year experiment as a turf race, the GIII Super Derby European Editor Emma Berry will return to the main track at Louisiana Downs Sept. 2. [email protected] Associate International Editor Heather Anderson @HLAndersonTDN Newmarket Bureau, Cafe Racing Sean Cronin & Tom Frary [email protected] 60 Broad Street, Suite 100 Red Bank, NJ 07701 732-747-8060 | 732-747-8955 (fax) www.TheTDN.com TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 3 OF 15 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • APRIL 10, 2018 Breeders= Cup Expands International Reach CEO. AWe thank our partners at Ascot for working with us in accomplishing this goal, and look forward to the outstanding with Four Ascot Qualifiers (Cont. from p1) coverage from the NBC Sports Group of these fixtures, and These races join the 1 1/2-mile G1 King George VI and Queen extensive coverage of the Royal Ascot races in June.@ Elizabeth S., run July 28, which will award an automatic berth All four races will be televised live and streamed in the U.S. as into the Breeders= Cup Turf, as a part of NBC Sports Group=s live the fifth AWin and You=re In@ coverage of the Royal Ascot races to be run at Ascot meet. Racecourse this year. The King AWe=re delighted to be George has been a part of the participating in the Breeders= international Breeders= Cup Cup >Win and You=re In= program Challenge since 2011. with races from Royal Ascot for Throughout 2018, the Challenge the first time,@ said Nick Smith, includes over 80 graded/group Ascot Director of Racing and races internationally. Communications. AThese are AThere is nothing quite like the pivotal race meets in our excellence, tradition and respective jurisdictions and prestige of the Royal Ascot natural targets for the very best meeting, and we are so proud Racing at Royal Ascot | Racing Post photo racehorses in the world. It=s and delighted that the Prince of particularly pleasing to be Wales=s S., Queen Anne, Norfolk and the Diamond Jubilee will be involved from the start with the development of the new a part of the 2018 Breeders= Cup Challenge series as we Breeders= Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint. It=ll provide an excellent new continue to encourage international participation for the World opportunity for European juveniles.@ Championships,@ said Craig Fravel, Breeders= Cup President and Cont. p4 TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 4 OF 15 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • APRIL 10, 2018 The Breeders= Cup Challenge Series AWin and You=re In@ NBC Sports Group television schedule will be announced Tuesday, and the full 2018 Breeders= Cup Challenge series schedule of races will be released Wednesday. SAN LUIS REY TRAINING CENTER REOPENS by Dan Ross AIt=s wonderful back there,@ said trainer Phil D=Amato=s assistant Linda Thrash, turning her eyes to the bright ochre red roofs of the barns behind her. AEverything=s cleaned, repaired, painted. It looks great. I=m really happy.@ We=re stood at the entrance to the San Luis Rey Training Center training track early on this bright Monday morning, surrounded by a wall of sunlight and color and life. Trees blanketed in leaves. Hillsides drenched in all shades of green. Flowers a labyrinth of reds, blues and yellows--a vastly different sight to that only four months before, when Thrash had been one of the many who fought through the black smoke and the flames and the searing heat in an effort to save the near 500 horses trapped there by the Lilac Fire that engulfed the facility that fateful December afternoon. In all, 46 horses perished. Martine Bellocq and Joe Herrick were hospitalized. Trainers, grooms, and hotwalkers watched helplessly as their lives and livelihoods disappeared into cinders and ash. Time, however, has a way of sweeping all before it, and time has certainly had a transformative effect on San Luis Rey. And this morning marked the re-commencement of training at San Luis Rey. Horses belonging to trainers D=Amato, Richard Baltas and Doug O=Neill trickled back in over the weekend--Saturday being the four-month anniversary of the tragedy, coincidentally--and the rest of the horses stabled temporarily at Del Mar will return this week. Before all horses can return to San Luis Rey, however, there=s still more work to do. Not that facility general manager Kevin Habell and his crew have been sitting idly by. AIt=s been a heck of a project,@ said Habell, about a seven-days-a-week work program now nearing its fourth month. They start between seven or eight o'clock in the morning. AAnd we go until it goes dark.@ On a tour of the facility, Habell showed me the former site of eight barns destroyed in the fire, where largely metal buildings had been engulfed by a white-heat so strong, it warped porcelain toilets in the bathrooms. AThe fire department said that that=s got to be 2500, 3000 degrees. Just a crazy once-in-a- lifetime thing.@ Cont. p5 TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 5 OF 15 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • APRIL 10, 2018 What remained of these buildings was razed, the scrap hauled the San Luis Rey landscape.